Presbytery of Aberdeen

Queen's Cross Church Rubislaw Church

The Presbytery of the North East and Northern Isles  is one of the fourteen presbyteries of the Church of Scotland, being the local presbytery for the city of Aberdeen.[1] The current moderator is the Rev Hutton Steel who is minister of High Hilton Parish Church. The presbytery represents and supervises thirty six Church of Scotland congregations within the city. The office is at Mastrick Parish Church.[2]

The role of Presbytery Clerk is held by the Rev Dr John A Ferguson. On 1 June 2020 the presbytery merged with Shetland Presbytery becoming the Presbytery of Aberdeen and Shetland with Shetland reducing its parishes to one, covering all the islands. There is currently a consultation process with a view to further mergers in the North East of Scotland. This forms part of the Church of Scotland's wider aim of reducing the number of presbyteries to around 12.This has now taken place and the presbytery is now called the Presbytery of the North East and Northern Isles.[3]

## Parishes

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Location  | Dedication  | Minister  | Details

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Bridge of Don: Oldmachar |  | Rev Darren Jalland  | Sunday 10.30am
Bridge of Don: St Columba's | St Columba | Rev Louis Kinsey  | Sunday 10.00am

Sunday 6.00pm

Craigiebuckler |  | Rev Kenneth L. Petrie  | Sunday 11am (September to June)

Sunday 10am (July to August)

Ferryhill |  | Rev Peter Johnston  | Sunday 10.00am (July to August)

Sunday 11.00am (September to June)

Sunday 6.00pm (third Sunday in January to May and September to October)

Tuesday 12.10pm (15 minutes) (third Tuesday of month)

High Hilton |  | Rev Hutton Steel  | Sunday 11.00am
High Kirk of St Machar

(St Machar's Cathedral)

| St Machar | Rev Sarah Brown  | Sunday 11.00am

Sunday 6.00pm

Holburn West |  | Rev Duncan C. Eddie  | Sunday 11.00am
Mannofield |  | Rev Keith T. Blackwood  | Sunday 9.30am

Sunday 11.00am

Sunday 6.30pm

Wednesday 8.00pm

Mastrick |  | Vacant  | Sunday 11.00am
Middlefield |  | Under the care of Presbytery  | Sunday 11.00am
Midstocket

(Union of the former St Ninian's and Beechgrove Churches)

|  | Vacant  | Sunday 10.30am
Stockethill |  | Rev Ian M. Aitken  | Woodhill Court: Sunday 10.00am (first Sunday of the month only)

Cairncry Community Centre: Sunday 10.30am

Northfield |  | Rev Scott C. Guy  | Sunday 10.30am
Queen's Cross |  | Rev Scott Rennie  | Sunday 10.30am

Wednesday 1.15pm (September to June only)

Rubislaw |  | Rev Robert Smith  | Sunday 9.30am (March to May and September to November)

Sunday 11am (March to May and September to November)

Sunday 10.00am (June to August)

Sunday 11am (December to February)

'Ruthrieston West |  | Rev Benjamin D.W. Byun  | Sunday 10.00am
South Holburn

(merger of Holburn Central and Ruthrieston South)

|  | Rev David Stewart  | Sunday 10.30am
St George's Tillydrone | St George | Vacant  | 11.15am
St John's for Deaf People | St John | Rev Mary Whittaker  | Sunday 11.00am (first, third and fifth Sunday of the month only)
St Mark's | St Mark |  | Sunday 10am (July and August)

Sunday 11am (September to June)

St Mary's | St Mary | Rev Elsie J. Fortune  | Sunday 11.00am
St Nicholas' Uniting Kirk | St Nicholas | Rev Stephen Taylor  | Sunday 9.30am (June to September)

Sunday 11.00am

St Nicholas' Kincorth South | St Nicholas | Rev Edward C. McKenna  | Sunday 10.00am

Sunday 6.30pm

St Stephen's | St Stephen | Rev Maggie Whyte  | Sunday 11.00a

Sunday 7.30pm (September to June only)

Summerhill |  | Rev Michael Shewen  | Sunday 11.00am
Torry St Fittick's | St Fittick  | Rev Dr Edmond Gatima  | Sunday 9.30am (June to August only)

Sunday 11.00am

Woodside |  | Rev Markus Aufferman  | Sunday 11.00am

### Outlying parishes

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Location  | Dedication  | Minister  | Details

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Bucksburn Stoneywood |  | Rev Nigel Parker  | Sunday 9.45am

Sunday 11.00am

Cults |  | Rev Shuna Dicks  | Sunday 10.30am
Dyce |  | Rev Manson Merchant  | Sunday 9.30am (second and last Sundays of the month)

Sunday 11.00am

Sunday 6.30pm (first and third Sundays of the month)

Kingswells |  |  | Sunday 11.00am
Newhills |  |  | Sunday 10.30am

Sunday 6.00pm

Peterculter |  | Rev John A. Ferguson  | Sunday 10.30am

## See also

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* List of Church of Scotland parishes
* List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries
* Presbytery of Europe
* Presbytery of Glasgow

## References

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1. ^ "Background Information". Presbytery of Aberdeen. Archived from the original on 17 January 2002. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
2. ^ "Moderator". Presbytery of Aberdeen. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
3. ^ Scotland, The Church of (22 January 2025). "Presbytery list". The Church of Scotland.

## External links

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* Presbytery Website
* Church of Scotland

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